More a concert review about Lucas' recital from the festival La Roque D'Anthéron. English resume:About Scarlatti: "The pianist’s precise and engaging play turned these pieces timeless, amazingly modern. It contained everything: romantic sensibility, classical fantasies, was fluttering in stormy anticipation and took shape in the velvety sound of the piano. Medtner’s Sonata No.5 in G Minor is music which extends the sacred truth of eternal art. Pianist’s inspiration, his fresh understanding allowed him to transmit masterfully this “musical mountains” wrapped in counterpoint. In Liszt’s Sonata-Fantasia “Après une lecture de Dante” Debargue’s fierce way of playing reached its' peak: it seemed limitless in possibilities and was full of nuances."www.journalzibeline.fr/critique/vertiges-sous-la-conque/... See MoreSee Less

Concert review in Le Figaro about Lucas’ recital in the festival La Roque D’Anthéron. Le Figaro author Thierry Hillériteau predicts “severe Scarlattitis” coming !Parts in English:- Lucas Debargue gave an unforgettable concert at the festival La Roque d’Anthéron. He turned the audience into the fantasies of the Italian composer Domenico Scarlatti.[---]This saying: the ones who didn't show up are to blame nobody but themselves - has been rarely so accurate as on that night when 1,180 spectators got infected with a rare disease - severe Scarlattitis. Right at the beginning, with the Sonata K.6, Pianist painted us a portrait of a composer with a constantly changing face. There were extremely slow and extremely fast tempi. [---] He let us hear the 'cante jondo' of Andalusian Gipsies. He turned the audacity of a baroque harpsichord into the responsiveness of a modern piano. The instrument he was playing at was ideally prepared by the tuner Denijs de Winter. Debargue's Scarlatti was neither austere nor seductive. His Scarlatti was rather a gambler, a provocateur with rich fantasy. [---] After ten sonatas (and an intermission) Debargue returned to the stage in a relaxed manner and delivered us Medtner’s 5th Sonata, a sonata of ineffable poetry. [---] But even less comparable was his performance of Liszt Sonata “Aprés une lecture du Dante” from the cycle “Anneés de Pelerinage”. It was an interpretation between celestial light and diabolical virtuosity. He offered three encores, lasting twenty-five minutes (Grieg, Liszt, Schubert). Scarlatti is also the composer to whom is dedicated his next CD. It contains 52 sonatas on 4 CD-s (published by the Sony Classical). The release is planned for the beginning of October. What awaits us then? Maybe the beginning of a global pandemic?-premium.lefigaro.fr/musique/scarlattite-aigue-a-la-roque-d-antheron-20190802

Another sneak peek to Lucas' upcoming Scarlatti album. Listen here how famous Sonata in B Minor, K. 27 will sound in his interpretation. Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, Google Play etc available here:: LucasDebargue.lnk.to/ScarlattiLF... See MoreSee Less

News excerpt from Vladivostok.Lucas says to the interviewer: "My goal is also to play music by lesser-known composers than just Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt. I want to open up to the audience new things. If I play very well-known works, the audience is less focused on the idea of the work. I try to open new facets and bring all together: the idea, the sound of piano and the whole process to get closer to the understanding of the nature of things.

About Scarlatti, I can speak hours! He is my favourite composer and very important to me! When I play this music, it takes me into another dimension. About Scarlatti I learned a lot from Scott Ross. It’s wonderful music that never gets old."www.youtube.com/watch?v=H85Ltib-kcE... See MoreSee Less